But now the BBC has been caught distorting the news about someone able to call them on their gutter journalistic ethics: the Queen. It cut the sequence of film of a photo session by Annie Liebovitz to make it appear that Her Majesty flounced out of the session in a snit, something which simply did not happen. The BBC has now issued an apology, saying that

the actual sequence of events was misrepresented.

Read the Daily Mail's account and ask yourself why Britons should be forced to pay for this lying propaganda organ. And then ask yourself what distortions about Israel, the United States, capitalism, and other disfavored groups have been perpetrated.

We have NPR and PBS, of course. But we have no monarch for them to lie about and get caught, though there is an hour of BBC news (hat tip: Ken Benway) appearing on many public radio stations on this side of the pond. For the very first time, I see a small downside to the success of our War for Independence....

But now the BBC has been caught distorting the news about someone able to call them on their gutter journalistic ethics: the Queen. It cut the sequence of film of a photo session by Annie Liebovitz to make it appear that Her Majesty flounced out of the session in a snit, something which simply did not happen. The BBC has now issued an apology, saying that

the actual sequence of events was misrepresented.

Read the Daily Mail's account and ask yourself why Britons should be forced to pay for this lying propaganda organ. And then ask yourself what distortions about Israel, the United States, capitalism, and other disfavored groups have been perpetrated.

We have NPR and PBS, of course. But we have no monarch for them to lie about and get caught, though there is an hour of BBC news (hat tip: Ken Benway) appearing on many public radio stations on this side of the pond. For the very first time, I see a small downside to the success of our War for Independence....